Funnel Web Spider - WIP

Funnel Web Spider - WIP

Here are a few test render with a blend of materials in Vray for Maya with displacement, normal maps, specular maps blended with subsurface material.

Eric Keller's Insect DVD has been a great help.

Forest Environment - Maya, Paint Effects, Mental Ray, After Effects

After watching some wonderful tutorials by Alex Alvarez on creating plants in Maya's paint effects and rendering them in mental ray I figured I'd have some fun and create some of the plants I see in Sydney when bush walking. These Paint Effects plants have been converted to Polys and have been instanced along a poly plane.

I plan to keep growing a library of plants and trees so I can quickly make environments and animate them.

Here are two useful scripts.... 

1. The SpPaint Script 

2. The  Leaf UV Tool 

Software Used - Maya, Mental Ray and After Effects. 

Tests: